RoomAlive - Changing Room Being Arcades Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILb5ExBzHqw

Video mapping technology using a giant screen projector itself is not new to graphics and video enthusiasts cinematography technology. But you know that the video mapping technology is also circulating in Indonesia is now being developed by Microsoft to assist them in presenting experimental augmented reality technology for the future gaming needs?

Get to know RoomAlive, a prototype of the concept of interaction augemented gaming from Microsoft which is developed by exploiting the existence of two peripherals Xbox Kinect with an LCD projector to bring the thrill of playing the game to the room where you are. Through the existence of this RoomAlive technology, the room will be transformed into an arena to play a video game, where you (and your controller) must act on to play each mini-game that is projected by the previous computer (see the video at the beginning of the article).

RoomAlive before the development of the prototype tested IllumiRoom Microsoft to expand your experience playing Xbox, to widen the perspective of the game beyond the television screen (for more details, click the link above to watch the video). Prototype IllumiRoom himself had uncovered to the public after the patent design leaked in 2012 ago.

Roomalive | screenshot 1

Roomalive | screenshot 2

Just as the existence of IllumiRoom two years earlier, RoomAlive not necessarily implemented into a mass product because it is not as easy as making yourself (and as cheap) as we imagine. Required at least six LCD projectors and six pieces of the Kinect camera sensor 2nd generation for simulation stringing RoomAlive own make total costs ranging in the tens of millions of dollars. Well, the price is not worth it to get the experience of non-AAA play mini-games that will likely make a lot of sweating.

Regardless of the concept is still a prototype, frankly I am quite interested in the focus of Microsoft's gaming technology development that is geared more toward the AR (augmented reality) than VR (virtual reality) that acted as the Sony through Project Morpheus is tested by Fahmi on TGS event a few weeks ago.

With AR technology is far more ambitious than the current development of existing technologies, but not impossible if Microsoft will be the development of AR gaming pioneer if ever they really can simplify the form of a fairly complex RoomAlive this. Well, we'll see which direction the development of gaming technology is 

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